A grassroots group is trying to generate enough revenue to run a national ad asking to get redo the FISA bill and strip telecom immunity. The ad they want to run, as well as way’s to help is here. There is much more at Wired.
Bush gave one of his little speeches today about FISA. Usually I just ignore these things, as they are so painful to watch. Today though, some things really stuck out at me. Any companies that assisted us after 9/11 were assured their cooperation was legal and necessary You assured them it was legal? Anyone with […]
I love them showing back bone. The White House doesn’t know how to take it. It also looks like they aren’t going to blink on telecom immunity: In continued defiance of the White House, House Democratic leaders are readying a proposal that would reject giving legal protection to the phone companies that helped in the […]
Easy. They want money! With the House Democrats’ refusal to grant retroactive immunity to phone companies – stalling the rewrite of the warrantless wiretapping program – GOP leadership aides are grumbling that their party isn’t getting more political money from the telecommunications industry. Yes we will change the laws to give you protection from the […]
The House Republicans just stomped their feet and walked out of the House in protest to the FISA bill not being on the floor right now. UPDATE: The Republican leadership is speaking. They are trying to spin this as being the exact same law that is in effect now. No – there wasn’t telecom immunity […]
Because why should we be a nation of laws? Of the two Democratic senators running for the White House, can you guess which one bothered to even show up and vote against this? If you guessed Hillary then you’re wrong.
I must admit that I really didn’t know too much about Chris Dodd when he entered the race, and from what I did know, I had mixed feelings on. Lately he has taken the initiative on some really important actions in Senate. First he vowed to block the FISA bill because of the telecom immunity, […]